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. . _ ~. . extent, meritoriously fOrmed by- the Administration in which the noble-Lord 0009itM)olle sot).inAu ish - a part. Ile cattle now to the second Opinion, that of the lost Administration. He was desirous to shew the House . that if there was meaning' in word's, or .1 inconsistency in - men:finless the Order of the 7th Jan. couldbe interpreted' away, as had been attempt- ed to interpret away the, French Decree, his 2401, ty's Government, in issuing the Orders, had A 1-4,lit ! I to be perfealy 'sitisfied, that howeverthe policrof ' . l, them might be questioned by't hose who wereparties. to the former Order, to the principle they could have, :i no objeaiim. He could also adduce the authority of that Hou s e i n C on fi r i na ti on of his opinion. 'On his own Motion for the formal prodiattioti•of the Order .; of the 7th of 3anuary',, a long discussion had taken place. Not one word did he or any other Member urge against the justice or the legality of that Order. I It was distintily argued as a question 41 policy ; and it teas contended by the Gentlemen opposite, that the 1 principle on which it proceeded was not further ex, I tended, because at that irme- a further extension was unnecessary, but that - defiling would prevent such an extension' should it becoMereqni'site.• He read the preamble of the Order, which asserted precisely the -ri,lght whieh'his . Majesty's present Ministerii. now - as- ' serted, thetright of retaliation. Indeed what else could it be For all, that recital could never have been made merely for the ,purpose of asserting a right which the4;dinary usage of war enabled. us to exercise. The arguments, therefere, of the, Noble Lord, bore as strongly egainst , t he Order of the late Administration as against the Orders of the present. Adverting to the Noble Lord's reference to the Order of 1750, he contendedotiat he was completely mistaken in that reference.. Th. Coi l -sting trade of France was pro hibited in 1'756, on this diStinEt ground; that neu, irals hadn't) right to , catry on that coasting trade for gianee,..in,Wa . i which France • would have carried On herself in peace. With respea to the nature of the retaliation, ,was it to be Confined exaelly to the ,Course' pursued by the Enemy ? If the principle of right, to retaliate Wereadtuitted, it triUgt also be ad mitted that we had aright to cause pur mode of re taliation;' other \vis'in many instances, retaliation would only enforce the clestrut ion Of -the .Power re taliating. Suppose a fortress was besieged, this fortress . liapplied with water by two itrcanis proceeding - from 4 neutral conntry; anti4uppose that the ~bestegers entered the nett •a 1 country, and' diverted the chan- Ile' of one of these streams, would it be . advisable retaliation, for the besieged to enter the neutral cowl' , try, and divert the . channel of the othefstream? The French had declared England should have no trade 'with , I. _. . ..,, ' -mild. 3 MU tional concessions on Our pat:t 4 - ere introduced into it, it would no t iv- pwited? wct bound to ad hereto the sti Pkrlatcrsd of this'Treaty erele was con cluded, and while it was - ttriliilg backwards and for .l.lArits;-IrOnt clUatter of. globe to the Other ? In imitation of the Noble Lord howould,say a few werds,, at present, on the policy of the (pliers *hat was 'the 'state of the two' countries of Great Britain and Frarieekoth reseed to 'Previous . to the issuing.of theDiders :(ouncile France en jpyed, , fad the assistance of. Neutrals, a.sgreet ' vateig , ?s of trade as We possessed with our tri utni)liant navy: Ofirrinvy,, indeed; as belligerent,' w. 1,1 'LW:waII:IA, and rendered. Ustflesi by neutral •ships•Carviing t(? France all that it was ' important for, 'France to obtain. This had been, the case . for :so lOng'e period, that even prior to the Decree of the t st of November, it might have been matter of dcliclitc!inquiry, whether this Country 'ought, not to. have resorted to the . measure of 1756. But surely the Noble 'Lard must s•e, that after the" issuing of the Decree of the Ist Of November, -a much stronger measure was necessary. Otherwise French property conveyed in neutral bottoms would have been safe. British property in danger.—lt had been declared, that the' French •Decree..weisla dead, letter, and that. it .was easily evadecL , He was well aware that the Certificates of Origin gave oppor tunities, by the assistance of forgery and perjury, for the introddlion of out' goods on the Cominent. Such practices, however, were not to be encouraged; and so far from its 'being a dead letter,..France' was from time to time supplied by ne„w provisions fur the deficiencies "of the Decree. The diflrent coasts had been lined with' tnlopi, and other .'means of improvement front tune to time recurred to.: Among the arguments which had been urged' against the Orders of Council, it had been contended that they were the cause of the distress which our , manufac turers experienced. It had been said, that France had shut the door against our commerce, hod that we had bolted it. But every one who was at all neguaint ed with the subje6t, 'enust know. that. the pressure which our manufadures sustained' was antecedent to 'the promulgation of tlie Orders,' and that ,it originated in the French Decree. If we entertained a hope, - that the great inconvenience sustained by the Continent for, want of 'British'. manuladureS;' might produce a resistance to those measures oh' the French Government by which they Were ex eluded, otir policy evidently was, by increasing that inCOnVenience,- to endeavoUr to force a, market. —lt was : impossible to say to what extent the: at-, bitrary power of France Might compel the coun -.der' her dominion to consent 'id their war, Which authorised the ailtnission of .certain cr. indiwgnsable tops, dpd 4otr), v ho.? articles NV . Cqq,. tuTbe,4etfirte'd :in thrlcitig,';`, I.ieenco; 'rite 'ipecia6sllo the late Or Ni - :WYS not t•otitinedtJa feW. article;,btit con)preh 4. nde - i*the \YhJ: book of iatei, ithd thc.l.reby,suiprLled all the navivatil..e. laws, whicii the t - ifiner Cl'se were but partlailly.4ifted, and thiS the shadow of an' AA ‘vhich let in but three or his viL!ws, rued any . party or any intention, to sweport any . set ,of men. The que3tion was,'' whether the Orders were right or not, and t:le deci,ion ought, in his, opinion, to : he submitted to Parliament. lie had no hostility to the Right Hon, Gentientan, but tie felt an • irrecon 7 cilable enmity to the unconstitutional manner by which they' hadcome into pewer. Though fitlona 7 parse may be guilty of injustice, that would not be a Justibeation of them in imitating his aas. Such' an Enemy ought-to he resisted by A determined courage, not b) a6ts of violence. it , behoved this Legisla ture, before the Order's' could have any etfett - upon foi'cign nAtions, • to ascertain whether they were, right, - gis Right Ron. Friend had stated, that theSe Orders were in retaliation of the tneaSures ot the nemy, upon, the same principle as tile thder,Of,the 7th January, 1807. Rut 'he contended', that theY : could not be considered as measures at retaliation ) , became the French L)ecree of thefts; of Not ember, .1806, had never been aEted upon, so as to require Such a retaliation. In proof Of this be' quoted the answer el the French Minister of Marine tattle ap plication of the American Minister for an explana tion of that Decree, in which it was stated, that the Dante did not. alter the maritime law of France with respect, tQ. caetnres ; that American Ships would not be . ciptured when passing between the ports of America and England, and that it was only :the entrance of snch Vessels into the Ports ot'.France .with English goods, which amounted to a breach of the blockade, that would subject them"to capture. — Another communication, on the same subjed, dated the 2.4 th, of December, gave a positive explanation, as the.previous one had ti negative explanation, that Neutral Vessels, coming (ruin-England or her Colo nies, wonld• not be received in the ports of France; and, if deeded in endeavouring to, evade this De cree by false, Papers, would be confiscated.; so that the Decree of the L',lst of November had not been acted upon in France, from the time cif its publica lien up to September last, in any manner to-call for. the retaliation by our Orders of. COuncil. The De cree had been adopted in . Spain, and in that country too it had. not been executed tiny more than in thoriseilieJneasures lave o as to aul _.4 theme W' deelared , that then they shot.. .ear own France, in any way 110 trade at all, With regard to neuarals, it was an ruin. It ; rance could exclude our goods from the that had been.resorted to by thus -GovertEnent• The ".. afetinded as,ertien, : that though we .had a right to 1 Continent, they . 'would have been excluded had case of the Vessel, the Shepherdess, an American, Ileetretheenetnr, we had no: right to injure theenee our 'Orders never -appeared,. If they were ex- with a cargo of Luglish enerehandize, Which , after lY by iheaUS ebat 4pnld •bte• prejudicial to neutral • eluded, we must look to the rest of the world; of an appeal to the Admiralty Court of Madrid, had .cowees..TheLlait Adm , iniStratioe by their own Order the trade with which, by those very Orders, we had been-released from a Spanish port, he stated to de 4,,eknowledged ehie assertion tosbe unfounded—that secured a Monopoly. By that trade we muse endea- 'monsteate that fact. There was no justification of Urger w;l3 prejudicial to neutrals—but•'were• they ' your to compensate .oerselVes for the loss of Conti.. the Orders of Council therefore in the condua of 'ehiliable for that? Cerelinly eot. The question in a , nental commerce.. With teeard to the effect which the Enemy. As to the case of America,' it Was his . ~ .., ease of this kind-was; is the injury to Neutral Pow- ; these Orders might have on our relations with iktne- wish that we should.relax.in our rights in her favour erg only consequential on measures direaed -against rice, that was a most important 'subjeet. Some per- as much as our circumstances would ;Ault of; and the Eve nl y, .oris • the . measure: originally directed sons apprehe n d e d, that they might induce America here he was ready to deny the applieetion of the aVinst N e ntral Po'wers ? The ere - idea of the last to go m to war with us. 'He trted not; he believed principle, that we had Ito right to search Neutral •e. Administration, in blocking upet whole river, one not:: no qne would regret such in event more.than Merchant V e ssels for any thing but contraband of sick .of whichv was occupied by Neutral Powers, himself. He was far from entertaining the "mis- war. ' The insult to a State etinld•Only be offered by Proved that they admitted the i justice of this deCtric e. taken idea, that we Might redeem out own . losses searching a 'Vessel of the State i the search at a It le e e . '" a n'emoCo 'conteed4 that 'We should havo,walted by the. euff e rings of America. Loss to America was e private Vessel might amount to a prn,lte injury, but I' owe'-‘? of the Ill'e . ncli Decree on Neutral' • 7 loss to Greet Britain-a .He wished to prevent war could not be considered a public iusult. As to the tk () , w " - ‘ . ? (,)r.,N,vhether Fi•;ince..inegtided to • put it in • , withAmericaefer althenghthe Mischiefs which Arne- certifitemes of origin, hie Right 'Hen. Friend• Must b tce • Trle. last Administration had not elone so'. •rica would .suffer: by wee, must nest be kit by her, know, that until Lord Auckland's Te:_aly, they ...,I:attlirk 11 0reinotistrated against the grder of the -► they would eventually be Mi by us. The prosperity u n itarmly, required in the ports of France, and in 71 " Jane as initiriow to her trade, and WOW' Si) fa'r , of America wa s ti le pro s p et ity o f Gr ea t B r it a i n , n o d tune of peace. On all these grounds Ito ideauld agree • ' n n , 3 t‘'' Si)! sale;WOUld resist it. 'ln the speech of the , he was. as anxious to preserve,peace with Ai rica, with les N o ble Frleittl ite opposing the ! Speaker's' .`' ''''sidot of the Unic c d ;s t ates, l't ;vas described es a - consistently with , the rights and interests of 'this, l ea ving the chair becaese he thought that this wits a 109ss' y i eletioteOf:•the Law et: Nations. lf, therefore, couniryi as . any man,. As he hoped chat Poe!' question upon which his M i ___ajesty's I.\ , litmiste,rs • ought the Gentlenieu opposile did not ., abandon their own . might be preserved; ha believed that it would be pre- to fortify themselves with the strength of Podia-, : principles, or.-aN i cl,hiltujig . i.,:iiict. not mean to pot in served; for if any enlightened view existed in•Amee ment and the sense 'of the :Nation, et - a time: „-f. ° •,.r.c° tjle measetewhicb they bad promel,aa zecl; they. rice of the prineiple of the measures which welted • when ~ the eyes of the World were upon their pro- • had tie right to' icete:e his AI Ijest's present Mini.; • adopted, it was impossible that they could be thetause ceedings. - . - slurs orOFccip'ktatio ii. lie trusted latel had., "etisfieci the , 'of war. It was impossible that the 'Americans cotild' The 411 ASTER of the ROLLS observed, that /..y _ , ‘,,,. ~. tare - 14, 1tiSk,, that pi eOdtici "of these Ordereof Council l oo k a t t h e ;o r d ers o f Council,, w i t h o ut perceivibg . there were sonic of the Papers ' with the contents of • ' '‘' v - a3 : c°6l PletelY .I. l stifiell by the Law of Natione, titc.l in them many instances of caution not to injure Acne- which any lapse at -time could tn not alce the House, 111ai pg. ine,istires of ~....11. they were also constitation. '+, rica There were various eiteeptlous in diminution better acquainted, and If there were, ns Ilia Learned, V ie •t , ustiCible, Lining been take n by time Head of- ' , of the'military etlea at those Orders which showed. Friend had stated inconsistencies in the Orders, they, _lmeli,xeCutive Governin° , ;nt in the due exercise•of his -that we were desirous of doing as little injery t ,b . Mi g ht be correeeed without being any cause of de , .tLoyal prerogative. But the' Noble Lord also con- I America as po;sible. *lf the Noble Lord, on a re- lay. His Learned Friend had said, that his Ma)es :lectuilved that these Orders were illeval, as contradiet-• view,of the argent:tents hoot just been urged, or 'e Ministers ought to go forth -on this of:Cession. '. •lf . jugh3 Ch " ta ' 'a"( 1 ale Statutes of Edward lII.' :on a recolleCtion of his former impressions on the with the whole strength of the House of Comnions. _ or s ti • i :tis , ../r rested on the same grounds as to the. subjeeti came to doubt whether he was jtistitied in It was about a twelvemonth since, that 'a treasure, reehlehrtl"k")°"'"'—thL'Y were tilla t ares of war ch.trgitig the I ) .ritisli Government with acts of vio- of this sort had been refused.even to . the. tetspeCtion . , . am., with e etc) wa s Qutitled by prerogative to take, lence towards Neutral Nations, it would be for him of the House of Commons, and it had then been t er enemies.. . i Ith which it was tit's ' ' ' ." . ert that those to consider,- what kind of impression might be made said, that to call for such a Paper woddhe to inter .. .. statutes should i ' justifiable in takine e - measure; would not 4.. I. Ki • - h. 'on America by the. notion that a great part of the fare with the condua of the war, and a denial of that Comm , ,„hl ,or forpolitical expediency Only: This. no* Under -discussion . was one against whieh, on no ground could be laid for its production, and there ' . been interferencei wit It tie'atrai properly le a d necsaar ay , • ewer y priecipleof honour and.dignity, the Americans Farlirtrueet . ought not to he possessed of it in ft shape an d'' P ra aice: of all former win.s., or how could ought-go take exception. ,If such an impression, that could make it the subject of discussion., He _ ,v / , ockade have been etfeeled ?By every blockade, under such an authority; Were to go to America; the was surprised, therefore, to' find that his. Learned , - I liad ithli d:interKn e d with Neetral' Powerst'sioce "'LI conseiltienees might tie highly injurious to .both Friend had refrained from giving his ielvice till this ' part b i - i real ene4 the ships of Neut ra l Nations in the countries. He recetinnended these, Consideretione i dey upon the subjea, and that, entertaining the to dolt it. with Confiscatien if they attempted . tp the attention of any Honourable Gentlemen who ! opinions ho did, he had not endeavour-id to recall ee, cl ‘ l a ' ai . '• his Majesty's eresent Ministers had might• he preparing to support the Noble Lord's ar- I the' late Ministers from an Ott which he considered . • cularlet the statutes of Edwakd M. and -parti- gutneuts. 'llia British G o vernment bad •boen aetti- li unjustifiable. His Learned Friend. 'had- ridtnitted e '... , N ew ! T th .. le 2 8th. of Edward 111, to which the ated by no spirit of jealousy or, hostility against that on A principle ot retaliation, Meesuree, of this , - eierd called • his 'mention . with so' much neutral Powers, more particularly against America. hind were tustiftible, and he agreed with his Learn mpnasis ' l - . ' , •, no ess hed ' they b6ett' minted- by the ' 'they had merely dyne that which. it was their duty ed Friend, that when such ineasureS were to operate .I\loble i ,by neither - • L"l'd and his friends. But the •faCt was, • - to do, in consequence. of the measures that bad been upon iuuoueot oeturals, it oughtto be gietye . matter , -related ' Y ' to a Part had. they been . violated, fur they adopted by the enemy-for the destruttion of the of consideration whether they should be resorted to. state of at and not of war. 'With country. -•'- - - . ' - • His Learned Friend had stated, that such measures' Nii ;eel ze I to .the . fitepe teken in consequence of theought to follow the acts of the enemy, oteotherwlse ' ' D r Lilik HENCE contended, that all' the ergo :el e i Itch Certificates of Origie, signed bya Fr , ..gich 'Con-. ,they would,not be in of retaliation. With this me which • had . been used by has flight Hon. , 2' 11.1 4 . given to nent•;al vessels, for' thiS prirp6se of dodrine he agreed in part ; but when the Enemy , lo'rietid, mide in IhVour of the' principles araiiitained Preventing their seizure. by French .cruizers; it by by bis Nobi6 vrielut . -i f eve , t i„ tre „„,, „ er i s i g, departed (Mill justice, he wes of _opinion that we tiCcepting these Certificates neutrals gave ette4'.l to the . were justified is retaliating in subtattee, and not retaliate. of Fraece e we, had undeubteilly a rieht to . : when no measure of'nr.:mgnitoiie; that might tffet.t bound to adhere to the term. And he was surpris the area interests of the COuntry,oUght not to 'Kiss .As to any,interference which the 04ters - : etl, indeed, to hear the Nohle Lard who opened this Witi7out thesedulousettentiOn of Parliarnent, it isas , in Council might have bad with the Navigetioti LaWs, • the pe ea ,„„ e .debate, put the .construction be had upon the.Frettelt The Ordeia of Council shuuldbc con- : ' m e wished that sobjea to be distinctly arg t mea '. 1 . )qt ' sideae d i n three T'peante of eieaa : ist, As 6 t h,.i i . , Decree of 1806,because that ,construetion took away i _ot•on that night. (..'onsidering the extent of those.all justification from the Order of the eth of San. - simplicity or complexity; idly . , As to their legality i tys . it, was VOL imposiible but spree pert - of themlll67. It wee matter of astonishinetit to bias .to -It to the illildielpal I n ,aw of the Country , . ,i_" l 6 4 t have been, infringed: Bet . if they evere inter- heat any one who had uttered t syllable in .sepport atel :elle, As to their legelity etceordingto the Lat ler t ed With, it was only as they frequently had 'been of Natione 'tale: number and variety of the Orde ."-, of the Order of 1,807, objeti to . the Orders then (tu be... ore, .in instinces in which' Parherne:neasontetiines der consideration. The eery preamble of the for ai-el Expktnatory Orders created _ much Corneleeiii . altought indermiimy eeceeSary for, the Measerea that trier Order wits a refutation of the. Noble Loyd's , awl contusion, and there were Many objeetioas to . had e been adopted, and sometimes recognized tee lc- ' e r . arguments. That preamble stated the,gross iujus t,,heeenepares'OTehem,ionie of vshich even went to gaiety , of these measiires i : -I?,k , en had - he been.A•tare,lice of the French Decree to be the found 'of the .o tete these Orders were originally • their legality."' ' Their meteaference isith the freer Order. 'The Noble Lord and his Leltriled Friend con e is'''oed that theY ;Anil s.:eurity of fereign rnerehants",vis inconsistent vthltitaied some of the provisicns of 1"::0 mmv igat ion laws, . w ith t h e a r ,,,,,key e a of ere t ea ce ee . e . e e ee c ta or . tended not that France ,dtd not understand the Dee' ae r , i n. w c lul ` ,l ' llol t'aie Witiellelci hi in Ireful theiF adoPa ditch til.li every facility ,Imonid _ ~t netA nother iopite on Which . the'Noble Lord .de- i , nwichatit•; tractility in roo.reliailtilT,o ,', n : s i .„ :4 1 . ..;,•,,> Orders proceeded; bit that no person residing the 'be o'ivt±n 10 o;e6 ceee, according to time eonstrudtion upon which the c ia. l I waa, that.by these Orders:we had viol ', , e ~,• •:. , •''' , . - ~- , ' , ' , rill. •ellact''d could understand it . so. Ferhii pert, 'he e u e T reaty witi , .. . Vie; • , I) , 0 1,.- iti, toat is p i : pp,II:1 1 / 1 .,` I:1W. . lint this 1 . i.":.: • ! , • 4 -. 0 lioll could be pelt IteatV - i 1 " I 'l l • Ic e" s that t o be cailt' d It i lily of the' 01 - (14 - s, mil . ilii inin(l, arose princevhe , eould,not see what other construe 1 - watelt wits not z.ttifiCd-..-Viliiel ) . , ,Vas reiOriled 1 , i',"" ) l i e ei,- eter •_ - rat , , ~‘•. of the- -, i .. e : upon it ; and - emi r- Ml.)ly the Gdeereiment of France eint . e usta use toe _ate ~ • .... .% i • silly-----------:-. ta'thi-11 ) -"ark/ with a deelaratioHiatt' le - eidti te tto *ea. I . LViljeity 11Trif pfoeeealles on e `ptecedent in tee eite... N , as not in the - haw or melting oe treneeaereuete e . . ..... . , . . . . ;~: tin, Decrees. France ;bad stat , l, thiT f L 0p),..4 mil (loci if 1.1 in a 'glati.'6lbl6.„'kpd'i., via**l)e car s • in a ,t ot 1; ‘vitilu'ut auy aa Li, 11, t_ (.4 tare ` not to hr., t() He would 1133! pressions in tho French t,,, Ljey enabled theth `to fait' their own con,tructi( Tipon Ole Decree, its it night oither to relix in its exe:..utioil, if I An. t..;11 should th:tke spiritoil icy :t, if submitted. Accorctin4) - ; the explanation given to tlio the: lapse of some time, .wll:ll.Lhi.., .N eutr ,di ; h a d t)een decoivecktboe.rpret iniihiOhthlt , ltAJ siucT been pllbliShed of ttIC PQpi - pe all coming from English poi is should t), c,tptur,:d. fie was surprised that this interpretation, ttitEe sophisti all than any other ey.r..-pt.. the I).‘crte itself, had s3tistied the Bitt' it had nut, he was convinced; satklied them; though 11:-..re, where their interests were better art:ted than b)i themselves', that iinpreAion might,i)e entertainer{.--- • buying, the r,?rench 'Revolution, he reniembered th: t the conduct of the, rvvo:ution', in this. Country, upon grQuntl, tt liiclt th;..y nyv•r thought of themselves, until they saw thorn in the . accounts of the, Pre...e.edings of the British Parliament. Re had seen an A{.:l. of the Atli Tit:an Cougreei, which did not refer iti the= slightc-st degree to wi ti't satisfa6tion. Ften‘.ll said,'r,hat the Decree of the of Nuvetub.-r (lid trot alter the maritime law of krato:C, lie did nut '..ti - Low yt,(l.•,t law was lx)erint 1 - 1:1 . re.. There' had laws agtiinst ,neutr:dB daring the I.lce,,lution, the explaitation..referred to them, 1).,t - Le not alter them. The explanat ion, ho o,.er, did ~ tre every SafkriletiOn !IS CO Clip .cOil [rt.4iioll VI lis strii Rion, oar th e extensionrmi of the Di.eree, the most important infottion fo , r nlerioa ti":t ceive. The single Cate that had {,:'en t-tated b . ) , his Learned Friend, as it took place in 3pititi, went .Jr., the whole case, and shewefl, that tibt oven was the Accree executed it) uf I;ritislt good, ,which his .I 4 earned Frion:t . , . the provisibus it the Dv ground that. the late MinlAel, , ..; , Order, which in the. &Lite. this thie , they declared not to. be alimited tended tolie followed up by snort , if France should peri , evere in it:, was the not e t.e..verod with the tr. „:ly t.) the rico,* Minister, but a dechration thtt 514;i74,1 retaliate. to any extent which the conduzA of rr.wee . and the ,subtuission of .I.\'.eatrals 11,,- cessarY. ? v kliese Orders unly , dCclne the port) a France and her Allie.s in a stat., of blockade . , and their produce . , contraband of war ztnd France . had dbpe th sa e me'hy this (7.:lnit;y. 'l'he tions were so many rendered ate - Orders More ox . ceptibl4W. the coast from West the-.Eibe I,!st War in a state of blockade, cortnnerclid "ret.f,:ilat4ls„ were first ,conneoed with the hloaode. West to ostencl could be justly, blockaded, but,nut the coast from Ostend to the Me.' 'AU .Vp . ii4s, therefore, not' coming front a 6114 * . to were permitted to pass untooleApl trom die Ports between Ostend and the Elbe. The Orde4or• :0104c:11:did not, - could not, alter the I.IW of nations. The: King might issue his ljeeldrattoa, wns not to-leave his Cdurts to, infer ..x1;:t1 hl , .v of.nations„ but the hint ;'A Deciari‘ft , n jd not aller the lawTof pations„ but to 11:, iftw, •Ike lta.l inn heard ti6r ni er n:•a:.1 in atiy upon the suhie6t, that the Parliaqicin had „eier enacted any thing upon the lily or '4J,I ever complained of the King's right to .l ate War or contraband, of War., . Municipal 'gtw could, nOer regulate' upon this, point.. When n' ,W the Crowaa entrusted.-with the power of making. War., it should not be depriVed of the mean 01 carrying it oil vigour and eft n t., 'l.'he question respe4ing the law of nations was ont of the ittriscliaion...ttal' compe— tence of 'Parliament ) , and ninth mine now thanlast year, when the Noble Lord said that it Would pl t • be safe to lay Papers of this kind beibie Parliament. The words of MI of Parliament Inv trench upon the, Prerogative,. so _lnv the words of an Order of Council upon an A& otT.ir liatuent.' The question therefore ‘tas, not,wit4hec an indemnity was necessn'y, but whether' the law of nations bad,been violated. The aliusiort bad on iparticularly. made to one of the, Qrders, that re spe&ing Certificates of origiu. ThePecree requir 'ing-these Certificates had been said by hislearpcd -Friend to be a mere municipal regulation.. ;He fon idered ,these Certificates of origin as a prohibition of 'Neutrals from carrying 13ritish Goods,. and contended ' that this was a breach at the, law To? ,nations; and quit 'Net : ands, by thusadinitting that Vr;Oco had:the power. to legislate for them, made themselves her instruments ngainst us. Persons entertained strange notions of the LAW of nations, when -thin su p py ,,,,d • that a nation conld.not.pertbrin aa Ot f . vigur o tilt its own preser4ation, without violation of the rule of its condu6t. But this could not be it'vioLition the iule, for the cask is o -at of the role. \Viicn Cie enemy abandoned the rale, it was out (11'4 not to : , to bound by it, but to inflict that injury opoichau which , he .inten4a; for us, until the tors:.; Lhn . to Peace. If France could 'continue tO enjov,',ill the advantages of cownL.trce thrwlgh Nebtrai" whilst we Were suftTering.every inory thm from her DecreeS, she would hi:uve nb 'tiiblivo to Peace, 043 this Colintry would ki)Citt tie t\Nitiee..l to the alternative, either Of • subutitting . tO Peace Upon any terms, or of continuing the War ro eqUiless period.. He thought that Enrope mi. ,-, ;ht be maode to feel that a Mitritime . Powet is much luls doitendent upon Europe thins the Continent is upon the MLiri time Power. Ht. would not titl'er his Country to perish, merely because the M6SLll'qfi which ate Lle‘. Cessa6 , for its preiervaliontulght pre's up }n Neutral Commerce, whlcli,Buonaparte had betiy - o There is no Contra...V*ll4oW n vecipr,kai obligation, and if Neutrals did not oblige the: ether patty to ad here to the law of nations, they Conk" not cure- . of' c for net adhcreing : ,:to it Upon thoso grounds he saw no reason to (!‘i , . ;;,-.) 1 1 the proprity of '`th ose Of deN iV.tl . lOl would impach 014 Of der of January, issued by an Administration claitne-d I>ovi-t a great p9rtilli.l 9f the_ COIISIde:it. 100, the Lou, .it, ;74r; ,iot*li4trtitiob could nut 1.14ve